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Title: Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird, Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes ISBN: 0-8021-1436-9 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: marred by alcoholism
Comment: This book is highly readable, but is not a beginning-to-end narrative, so those who pick up the book expecting a simple story will be disappointed.
Yes, it is a book of activism, and there is some feminism. Reservation poverty is described in detail. Domestic abuse and alcoholism also appear here. Plus Sun Dance self-torture. Thankfully, many sweat lodge and cedaring-off descriptions dull down the affect of the more shocking parts of Mary Brave Bird's experiences.
She falls prey to an alcoholic lifestyle inolving "party-ing" until you're either beat up or in jail. She eventually leaves her husband, Sioux medicine man Leonard Crow Dog, and treks across country (with 4 children), moving from women's shelter to homeless shelter, until they all spend a wild three years in Phoenix.
Definitely, the alcoholism mars this narrative, and lowers Mary Brave Bird's credibility. Yes, there are a lot of references to the American Indian Movement's standoff at Wounded Knee. And there's a good chapter about native American traditions with regard to menstruation. And inspiration about fighting for the land.
But I can't help wondering if the sort of hopeless drunken revelry portrayed here typifies ALL reservation Indians, and if so, aren't they in fact contributing to the end of their own culture..? Who's watching all those Indian kids while Mom's on a two day drunk?
In other words, this is a disturbing book. It's good but scandalous reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gripping, touching account of life on the "rez"
Comment: I read Ohitika Woman a few months before I read Lakota Woman; this was the first Native autobiography I ever read. To respond to an earlier review, the book did reiterate things covered in Lakota Woman, but that is neccesary if people read this one first as I did. I spent some time on Rosebud as a volunteer teacher last summer and came to understand to some degree why Mary writes what she does about the rez.
Rating: 5
Summary: Daring, Provocative, Enlightening
Comment: "Ohitika Woman" is a true confession of a life most American Women have never lived. From Wounded Knee to Washington, from rags to riches, from love to heartbreak. Mary Brave Bird talks openly about her life as a proud Lakota woman, who defends the best interest of her people in the best ways she knows how. She talks honestly about life growing up on a poor Indian reservation, and proudly of her time with the American Indian Movement during the seige of Wonded Knee during the massive Red Movement of the 1970's. She is is a remarkably head-strong woman, and has lived her life this way even against incredible odds. What I enjoyed most was her enduring strength and the need to succeed and never give up. For this, she is a true winner, and a true success. A book for all Americans, "Ohitika Woman" has something to teach us all. As a Native Canadian, I greatly admire her overwhelming courage, strength and passion in fighting for what she believes in!
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Title: Lakota Woman Tie In by Dog Mary Crow ISBN: 0060973897 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 08 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Crow Dog : Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men by Leonard C. Dog ISBN: 0060926821 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title:Lakota Woman - Seige at Wounded Knee ASIN: 6303359094 Publisher: Turner Home Entertai Pub. Date: 26 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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Title: Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means by Russell Means, Marvin J. Wolf ISBN: 0312147619 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title:Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story ASIN: 6302541468 Publisher: Artisan Entertainment Pub. Date: 21 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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